The Trustees of Union College in Schenectady, New York will receive $541,186 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences. The grant will support the development of precipitation, evaporation and temperature records from tropical lake sediments and cave deposits for the last 700,000 years.
This work directly aligns with the goals of the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth and ocean sciences. By reconstructing past climate conditions using geological archives, this project will provide valuable new insights into long-term climate patterns and variability over hundreds of thousands of years. The findings have the potential to advance scientific knowledge of Earth's climate system and inform efforts to understand ongoing climate change.
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